August 21 - Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time, Year II
(Ez.37:1-14; Ps.107:1-9; Mt.22:34-40) "I will open your graves and have you rise from them, and bring you back to the land of Israel." The commentary in the missal I read states: "The lesson here is return from captivity, not life after death." And so the speaker proves once again the limited vision of so many of our scholars – indeed, how like the Pharisees and the Sadducees and the lawyers of Jesus' time these faithless are, how blind… how dry their bones without spirit. Certainly the prophet Ezekiel speaks to the exiles of their return to Israel: to these he is sent, and of this redemption…
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